A lawsuit accusing Netflix of violating the Fair Work Act by making an employee’s position redundant while she was on parental leave has been sent to mediation.
Justice Tim Faulknerās ādessicatedā sense of humour was on display during a swearing in ceremony on Thursday, during which the new judge thanked his colleagues on the bench for their handwritten letters of welcome, one of which he said was ācompletely unreadableā.
South Korean biotech ToolGen has won court approval to patent its genome editing technology CRISPR, after an earlier bid to protect its IP found the revolutionary technology was not patentable.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has brought proceedings against Optus over a September 2022 data breach that comprised the data of up to 10 million customers, the first lawsuit filed by a regulator following a string of major cyberattacks over the past two years.
Hospitality giant Mantle Group has asked the High Court to find a statement by a full bench of the Fair Work Commission accusing it of acting “extraordinarily and contumaciously” during a dispute about a ‘sham’ enterprise agreement gave rise to an appearance of bias.
A New South Wales developer’s competition case against NSW Ports over a ports privatisation agreement looks bound for the High Court after a judge found a related ACCC proceeding did not bar it from bringing the case, which will challenge a Full Court finding that the ports operator was shielded by derivative Crown immunity.
Senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation case against rape victim Brittany Higgins is likely to go to trial, after a second mediation attempt failed.
Game maker Light & Wonder is fighting orders requiring it to hand over information to Aristocrat Gaming for a possible suit alleging it and two former employees who jumped ship misused confidential information about Aristocrat’s popular Lightning Link and Dragon Link games.
SkyCity has agreed to pay $67 million to resolve AUSTRAC proceedings alleging it allowed $4 billion in suspicious transactions and failed to carry out diligence on high-risk customers.
The University of Sydney has succeeded in a challenge to a finding that an academic was unfairly dismissed after posting to social media a controversial slide of a Nazi swastika superimposed on the Israeli flag, with a majority appeals court finding his union failed to prove the “incendiary” conduct accorded with the standards that entitled him to intellectual freedom.